Jeremiah 2:2
Douay-Rheims
Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: I have remembered thee, pitying thy soul, pitying thy youth, and the love of thy espousals, when thou followedst me in the desert, in a land that is not sown.
George Leo Haydock
Espousals. He speaks ironically. (Theodoret) — Yet the Israelites at first shewed greater proofs of love than they did afterwards. It is true they often prevaricated, in the wilderness, Exodus xxxii. 1., and Amos v. 25., and Psalm lxxvii., &c. (Calmet) — The Lord declares his gratuitous love, and then upbraids his people. (Haydock) — He had caused them to multiply in Egypt, and gratuitously made choice of them. (Worthington)
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1849 · Jeremias 2:2
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